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End User Computing at a glanceFri, 04 Mar 2016 15:33:01 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.13ThatsMyViewhttps://feedburner.google.comTroubleshooting Surface Docking Stationhttp://www.thatsmyview.net/2016/03/04/troubleshooting-surface-docking-station/
http://www.thatsmyview.net/2016/03/04/troubleshooting-surface-docking-station/#commentsFri, 04 Mar 2016 15:33:01 +0000http://www.thatsmyview.net/?p=1801If you own a Surface Pro 3, Surface Pro 4 or Surface Book you probably ran into an issue while using your external monitor on the Surface Docking Station 4. There are quite a lot of forum threads about issues where the screen of the external monitor remains black when the Surface comes back from sleep. This situation could happen i.e. if your monitor is not 100% compatible with the Surface Docking Station. Microsoft has published a blog post which hints that.

]]>http://www.thatsmyview.net/2016/03/04/troubleshooting-surface-docking-station/feed/0Surface Firmware 05/19/2015 available as download packagehttp://www.thatsmyview.net/2015/05/22/surface-firmware-05192015-available-as-download-package/
http://www.thatsmyview.net/2015/05/22/surface-firmware-05192015-available-as-download-package/#commentsFri, 22 May 2015 13:11:38 +0000http://www.thatsmyview.net/?p=1794The new Surface Firmware released on last Tuesday is now available as a download package. The download includes firmware and drivers and a prepacked MSI file for your Enterprise deployment.

]]>http://www.thatsmyview.net/2015/05/22/surface-firmware-05192015-available-as-download-package/feed/0Surface Pro 3 and 2 get new Firmware Update 5/19/2015http://www.thatsmyview.net/2015/05/19/surface-pro-3-gets-new-firmware-update-5192015/
http://www.thatsmyview.net/2015/05/19/surface-pro-3-gets-new-firmware-update-5192015/#commentsTue, 19 May 2015 20:29:55 +0000http://www.thatsmyview.net/?p=1790Microsoft has published a System Firmware Update for the Surface Pro 3 and the Surface Pro 2 today. The new update includes:

]]>http://www.thatsmyview.net/2015/05/19/surface-pro-3-gets-new-firmware-update-5192015/feed/0Surface App available for download outside Microsoft Storehttp://www.thatsmyview.net/2015/04/21/surface-app-available-available-for-download-outside-microsoft-store/
http://www.thatsmyview.net/2015/04/21/surface-app-available-available-for-download-outside-microsoft-store/#commentsTue, 21 Apr 2015 19:13:10 +0000http://www.thatsmyview.net/?p=1786A few months ago Microsoft published an app to configure the Surface Pen. The app formally known as Surface Hub but renamed to Surface App helps to set the action when pressing the button on the pen, but can also configure the sensitivity and disable/enable the Windows hardware button. A very handy app which was only available in the Microsoft Store so far. No issue for everyone who owns a Microsoft account and can install apps from the Store, but what about Enterprise users who get their software installed via SCCM or other deployment solutions? Microsoft fixed this and published the app on the website as a standard download. You can download the .appx and other files and integrate them into your standard deployment process. There is also a TechNet article which describes how to install it.

]]>http://www.thatsmyview.net/2015/04/21/surface-app-available-available-for-download-outside-microsoft-store/feed/1Surface UEFI 3.11.760.0 and the Remote Management Toolshttp://www.thatsmyview.net/2015/04/10/surface-uefi-3-11-760-0-and-the-remote-management-tools/
http://www.thatsmyview.net/2015/04/10/surface-uefi-3-11-760-0-and-the-remote-management-tools/#commentsFri, 10 Apr 2015 07:20:25 +0000http://www.thatsmyview.net/?p=1783Back in March Microsoft has published a new UEFI version (3.11.760.0) for the Surface Pro 3 device. The latest update to the firmware and drivers includes some great remote management features to control the devices hardware. i.e. you can control if a user has access to the camera, Bluetooth stack, microSD reader and more. To configure this on a per devices basis would be challenging so they implemented a remote management feature as well. Just yesterday Microsoft published the tools to manage the UEFI. These are based on PowerShell.

]]>http://www.thatsmyview.net/2015/04/10/surface-uefi-3-11-760-0-and-the-remote-management-tools/feed/1Microsoft Universal Foldable Keyboardhttp://www.thatsmyview.net/2015/03/03/microsoft-universal-foldable-keyboard/
http://www.thatsmyview.net/2015/03/03/microsoft-universal-foldable-keyboard/#commentsTue, 03 Mar 2015 14:12:02 +0000http://www.thatsmyview.net/?p=1780Yesterday at MWC Microsoft has announced the Universal Foldable Keyboard. My first though was: “Wow that keyboard looks like a small foldable Surface Type Cover”. The new keyboard is compatible with Android, iOS and Windows Phone. The keyboard connects via Bluetooth so their might be a chance to connect the new device to a Windows tablet too. The video and the photos show a MicroUSB port which should be used for charging. Battery lifetime and pricing was not announced yet.

]]>http://www.thatsmyview.net/2015/03/03/microsoft-universal-foldable-keyboard/feed/0Microsoft Live Webcast Mobile World Congress 2015http://www.thatsmyview.net/2015/03/02/microsoft-live-webcast-mobile-world-congress-2015/
http://www.thatsmyview.net/2015/03/02/microsoft-live-webcast-mobile-world-congress-2015/#commentsMon, 02 Mar 2015 08:29:41 +0000http://www.thatsmyview.net/?p=1778Today at 8:30am CET Microsoft started their press conference from the Mobile World Congress 2015 at Barcelona. Stephen Elop and his Team presented two new Lumia devices, the 640 and the 640 XL. Two new affordable devices with interesting specs. Both devices are upgradable to Windows 10. And this was the most important part of the day for me. During the presentation they showed the new Windows 10 build on a Lumia 930 including the new Office apps for Windows 10. Outlook Touch looks the same, on the tablet and the phone. This is a great experience and I’m really looking forward to work with it.

Another cool fact today was the presentation of Surface Hub. Actually this was the first time Microsoft showed the new device in Europe.

Check the Lumia conversations @ Microsoft.com for more Details: http://lumiaconversations.microsoft.com/category/news/

]]>http://www.thatsmyview.net/2015/03/02/microsoft-live-webcast-mobile-world-congress-2015/feed/0New version of Microsofts Project Siena released! Access Sharepoint Online and OnPremisehttp://www.thatsmyview.net/2014/11/19/new-version-of-microsofts-project-siena-released-access-sharepoint-online-and-onpremise/
http://www.thatsmyview.net/2014/11/19/new-version-of-microsofts-project-siena-released-access-sharepoint-online-and-onpremise/#commentsWed, 19 Nov 2014 14:54:04 +0000http://www.thatsmyview.net/?p=1773Microsoft has released a new Version of Siena, a very handy tool to easily create LOB apps for Windows 8.x. I’ve played loads with Siena in the last few month and the most important Feature I was missing was accessing Sharepoint Online. With the new release this will work. But there are more great features coming.

Well, I’m not back at VMware … but I’ve had a customer situation this week where I got in touch with Airwatch MDM. My customer would like to use Windows Phones with Airwatch but had some questions regarding the configuration. It wasn’t really a phone question but more related to a option configurable in the Airwatch Console. There were two fields without description, one for EAP in the VPN configuration and another in the WLAN configuration when using WPA encryption.

To be honest I didn’t even know what they are talking about but again the old wisdom is right …… RTFM.

The Microsoft MDM protocol documentation for Windows Phone 8.1 gives you all you need. There are great examples in the documentation you can use.

]]>http://www.thatsmyview.net/2014/11/18/rtfm-eap-and-wpa-payload-for-windows-phone-in-airwatch-mdm/feed/0Improvements to the Windows Phone 8.1 Enrollment Process for Intunehttp://www.thatsmyview.net/2014/11/18/improvements-to-the-windows-phone-8-1-enrollment-process-for-intune/
http://www.thatsmyview.net/2014/11/18/improvements-to-the-windows-phone-8-1-enrollment-process-for-intune/#commentsTue, 18 Nov 2014 18:28:49 +0000http://www.thatsmyview.net/?p=1765Microsoft is updating the Intune Company Portal as part of the Microsoft Intune service upgrade. A big improvement in the new release is the fact that you don’t need a Symantec certificate to enable the Enrollment of Windows Phone 8.1 devices in the Intune standalone version anymore. Please check the TechNet blog mentiond below to get more detailed information. The technical documentation will be available on 21th November at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=519191&WT.mc_id=Blog_Intune_General_PCIT